As much as I wanted to part of the GlassFish v3 Prelude festivities, I didn't really have anything to contribute. See, I started with Sun on the code freeze day for v3 prelude so I had 0 to do with prelude. :) Anyway, I'm the newest(?) member of th...
Read More…There's no end of opinions in the java/closure debates. Everyone who has half a notion of what's going on (and many who don't) has their own opinion on how closures should be implemented. My imaginary friend Dave is no different with his Dumb Closures idea. It looks like BGGA is going to win the day but I really wish this proposal would get a closer look. I'm not a language lawyer by any stretch and there might be a million holes and subtleties I'm missing, but this looks like a half decent idea. The syntax is a million times simpler than others I've seen and doesn't seem to need any of the syntactic and bytecode gymnastics needed by other proposals. In fact, it seems to need very little of either. Dave's idea doesn't support the notion of named or typed closures so you can't stuff them in a List to be executed later. I'm actually OK with that because I think interfaces are a better solution in almost all cases there. This syntax, however, is very, very clean and doesn't bring the "wtf" factor that the other proposals bring.
So to all you who actually know what you're talking about in regards to closures, what do you think? What am I missing?
Apple is often lauded for its care of its customers. Generally, i think this is true. But I had an experience the other day that no one seemed overly concerned about. I've emailed the person I'm told is the manager at the W. 14th St. Manhattan store but have, as yet, received no reply. This was about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Below is the text I sent both to the manager and (at least tried to send) to the apple care survey. My computer quit booting and I'd done some tests before taking it to the "genius" bar.
After running diagnostics, I suspected hardware failure on the drive and suggested that to the first tech. He assured me it was likely filesystem corruption as hardware failure would've given a different error. When they tried to scrub and reinstall the HD, they discovered it was in fact hardware failure. Where things went wrong was when he entered the specs of my machine as an 80G HD when it was, in fact, 160G. When I noticed this on the work order and brought it to his attention, he did something and assured me he had corrected it. When the tech doing the repair noticed the HD was dead, he replaced my drive with one as listed on the work order: 80G. I didn't notice this until I got it home late at night.<the lady> at AppleCare called the store and spoke with someone. She told me to take the laptop back and ask for <the tech> and told me that I would get "a half day turn around." When I showed up, <the tech> was not there (and there was some confusion about who <the tech> was) and instead of the half day I was promised, I was told it would be ready by 10pm (it was about 9 am) which, as you'll note, is about twice of what a normal half day usually entails.
I still had received no call by 9pm so I took the train in from Brooklyn to be at the store by 10 to either pick it up or register my discontent in person. When I told one of the last remaining techs who I was, he asked me to hang out while he sent for my computer. Whether it was done or not, I'm not sure but I did wait a while in an otherwise quiet store. In the end, I got my computer but had I not shown up it would not have been until the next day that anyone would've called. All this after being promised a half day to correct a mistake that should've been fixed in the fifteen minutes it would've taken to correct while I waited.
So after four trips in one week, it's doubtful that I do any Genius Bar appointments at this store again. There's nothing about my experience there that engenders any trust.